Thomas Strothotte

Who is Thomas Strothotte?

Thomas Strothotte is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator living in Germany. He is the President of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg.

Strothotte was born in 1959 in Regina, Canada and raised in Vancouver. His first degrees were taken at Simon Fraser University. His further graduate work was done in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, McGill University in Montréal/Québec and the University of Waterloo/Ontario, leading to a Ph.D. in 1984. He also holds an MBA from Columbia University and an MBA from the London Business School

After a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at INRIA Rocquencourt near Paris, he went to the University of Stuttgart as an Assistant Professor in 1985, earning a D.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg, working in the Software Ergonomics Department. From there he went to the Free University of Berlin in 1990 as a Professor of Computer Science.

He moved on to the University of Magdeburg in Germany in 1993, where he was the head of the Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems Laboratory.